Current CASCAID challenges
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Schroders Golf for GOSH
Golf for GOSH Saturday 11 May 10.30am, Richmond Park Golf Course, Norstead PI, London, SW15 3SA, £50pp Join…
Drive around the world without leaving the UK….
……Visit Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Israel, the USA, Australia, Russia and Trinidad & Tobago without needing a Passport….
Longest-day golf
Phil Wagstaff and Richard Turner are coordinating an epic longest-day golf challenge. Teams have to play three rounds…
For all you armchair footballers
Adam Norris from BMO GAM is organising an X-box/ Playstation FIFA Championship. He’s asking each company to run…
Gina and Marina at the GOSH Xmas party
Members of BlackRock volunteered at the GOSH Christmas party on behalf of CASCAID. 2,000 patients, siblings and parents…
Charles Davies plans 4 marathons in a month!
As if running one marathon wasn’t challenging enough, Charles Davies from Investec plans to run FOUR in April…
Outstanding Contribution Awards
Joffy Willcocks was recognised in the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Fundraising Awards for his role in hosting the…
Outstanding Contribution Awards
The BMO GAM team, who walked the M25 for CASCAID, were recognised at the 2018 dinner. Congratulations on…
Outstanding Contribution Awards
Marcus Brookes was recognised at the 2018 dinner for his outstanding contribution to fundraising. This award recognises his…
Outstanding Contribution Awards
Well done to Mike Haslam and the Barclays team, who won the December 2018 award for their outstanding…
Barclays visit 51 fund managers in one day
The intrepid fund selection team at Barclays set their challenge to hot-foot it round 50 fund management groups…
Phil Middleton’s Bremont event
Phil Middleton of Schroders raised over £8k by organising an evening reception at the Bremont watch shop in…
Weller and Wagstaff Onesie Day
Tim Weller, Chairman of Incisive Media, and Helen Wagstaff, MD of MiP, were challenged to each wear a…
M&G Dragon Boating a Great Success
Thanks to Joffy for spearheading the Great Asset Management Dragon Boat Race. It was a fabulous day, with…
Schroders Schrowers win the Dragon Boat Race
The Great Asset Management Dragon Boat Race saw over 30 teams (each of 10 people) from companies around…
13th October – Family Fun Run
Dozens of CASCAIDers joined us for the Hyde Park family fun run on 13th October. A fabulous 5k…
CASCAID abseil
Despite VERY wet and windy conditions, most of the CASCAID abseilers managed to complete the task on Sunday…
Farquhar’s famous five
We all know Jamie is delightfully crazy, and his CASCAID challenge was equally mad! His challenge…. to swim…
Legg Mason ping-pong-a-thon
The Legg Mason team, led by Alex Barry, held a mammoth 24-hour table tennis championship in July. The…
Sarah and Darius’ Darts
After their 24-hour dart-a-thon last year, the Chelsea team were back for more fundraising. This year they organised…
Square Mile Quiz Night
Once again, Square Mile are organising their annual quiz for CASCAID. Held on 18th Sept, this brings the…
400k in 30 days
Jeremy Roberts gathered a team of colleagues together to complete an endurance challenge that would test the most…
Wimbledon fundraiser
Members of the Schroders team generously donated tickets to Wimbledon 2018 to CASCAID. These were used in a…
Marathon success
James Crossley, Richard Warne from Credit Suisse, Tom Caddick from Santander and Darren Morgan from Cazenove all ran…
Just popping out for some cheese
Simon Munday and Andrew Brady from Prosperity IFA and Matt Cheek from Janus Henderson Investors are ‘just popping…
Leggs in Lycra
Alex Barry is leading a team of colleagues to undertake the Prudential Ride 100 this summer. 100 miles,…
BMO GAM walk the M25
Rob Thorpe, David Logan, John Bennett and Ross Duncton were quick out of their blocks with their challenge….
The onesie challenge
And so the challenges begin. At the launch party Tim Weller kindly (!) challenged Helen Wagstaff to wear…
2017 CASCAID challenges for CRUK
Jim’s 100 climbs done and dusted
Read about Jim Leaviss’s tremendous effort…… I set myself the target of riding up 100 hills, mountains, or…
Bad Boys on Tour
At the end of September, three of the Bad Boys – Phil Wagstaff, Jonathan Polin and Tim Weller…
Square Mile quiz night a great success
31 teams gathered at The Gable in the heart of the City on 12 September 2017 for the…
Investec take on the Tough Mudder
Warren Tonkinson – man of iron!
Warren completed his CASCAID half-ironman triathlon challenge last weekend. He’s done a lot of crazy challenges in the…
Charlie Wilson’s shooting day
The clay shooting day organised by Charlie Wilson was a great success. Congratulations to the winning team, comprising…
T.Rowe Price volunteer for CRUK
Some of the T.Rowe Price sales team took over the Stevenage CRUK shop as part of the CASCAID…
Anne-Marie rows from Wales to Ireland
Toni Craig’s Spartan Challenge
Janus Henderson sales & marketing Monopoly challenge
Farquhar’s Thames battle
Square Mile’s Jamie took on the Thames in style in early August. He swam 14k in the Henley…
Teamspirit Skydive
Libertine conquer the 3 peaks
Led by their MD Mark Brandis, ad agency Libertine took on the 3 Peaks Challenge. This photo shows them…
Keep on walking: the Hutson-Bryden 200km
Tuesday 30 May saw Derek Bryden and Mark Hutson from Janus Henderson set off on a 200km walk…from their…
Sam Gold’s amazing wine evening
Janus Henderson Transatlantic Tour
On merger day, hundreds of people from Janus and Henderson came together to raise money for CASCAID, aiming…
Two Tommys walk the Thames
The wonderful Two Tommys from River & Mercantile (Tom de Lisle and Mark Thomas) walked the entire length of…
Ben Burns’ Kilo
30 days, 300k, £30k raised for Jeremy Roberts and team
BlackRock’s Jeremy Roberts committed to a 10k run, cycle or row every single day in May. Jeremy recruited 30…
Ventoux was conquered
Schroders’ Paul Truscott took one of France’s toughest climbs as his challenge. During their three day trip to Provence,…
Coast-to-coast with Garry Whitefield
We have another “mamil” in our midst. Garry Whitefield and a friend cycled coast-to-coast in aid of CASCAID. Well done…
AlphaGen Lakes Challenge
Ravenscroft walkers
Helen Wagstaff’s 500k Challenge
Darts around the clock with Darius
The Great CASCAID Bake-Off
Sophie Burke from M&G led an industry bake-off. Teams competed to see who could bake the best goodies. One…
The Next Generation Quiz Night
Zoe Ng of Henderson, Katie Wagstaff of Schroders and Giles Whittingham of GAM are part of our Young…
Investec scale 3 peaks…with a difference
In March, Simon Brazier and his team from Investec scaled Lion’s Head, Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain: the…
Newton Walk the Wight
Hanneke Smits invited 50 people from Newton to walk across the Isle of Wight, the equivalent of a marathon….
Ping Pong Bailey raises £12k
Morningstar Chicago to Sydney
Morningstar have set up static bikes in their London office and are aiming to cycle 25,000; the equivalent…
Mountain Goats
Aviva Investors sales team scale the heights
Wharrier’s boots are made for walking
500k for Charles Davies
Investec Asset Management’s Charles has a 500k challenge. First up, a 100k ski in a day (along with Helen…
RWC’s 24-hour pedibus
Gary Tuffield, James Tollemache and the team at RWC have given this a lot of thought and devised a…
Teamspirit Walk the World
Jim’s top 100
Rob&Gary’s Robin Round Britain
26 miles of pain for Rainbow
Matt Oomen’s Velodrome-a-thon
Cycle mad (or just mad?) Matt has arranged for various teams at BNY Mellon to compete in a 24-hour…
Bond Vigilantes support CASCAID
To celebrate 10 years of their Bond Vigilantes blog and raise money, Jim Leaviss and the M&G team…
“Trouser” tees it up
Mark “Trouser” Allpress has, shockingly, chosen golf as his fundraising activity. He and the Liontrust team are organising…
Jasper and the skydivers
Jasper and his colleagues are going to jump out of a plane. Yep. There’s not a lot more…
Tom Becket’s footie tournament
Tom is setting up an industry football tournament. Held in September, this will see teams from across asset management…
Comedy with Katy
Katy Cole is organising a comedy evening as her challenge. Who doesn’t love a bit of comedy? Katy will raise…
4 men, 4 nations, 4 a good cause
Henderson Transatlantic Tour
Henderson are getting together with their new colleagues across the pond to do a virtual cycle from London to…
Incisive Media exercise their brains
As their challenge, Incisive organised a massive quiz night at The Brewery, drawing in journalists, PR teams and…
The Ptarmigan Media mega triathlon…
Tonkinson’s a man of iron
Warren loves a large-scale challenge, having canoed the Thames and cycled the length of the country in the…
Is that Alastair Mundy or Garry Kasparov?
Alastair is challenging his grey matter and is undertaking a chess marathon of 500 games. I think some…
Cazenove take on the Thames
Darren Morgan and Rory Cumming from Cazenove Capital put their imagination to the test and came up with an unusual…
JP certified insane!
Cycle mania with Standard Life
Richard House, Katie Trowsdale, Michael Beveridge and team plan to cycle between two of Standard Life’s offices in…
Square Mile are feeling peaky
The lovely team at Square Mile took on the Three Peaks challenge in June. Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell…
CEO abseil with Andrew Formica
On a very windy day in June, a team of intrepid industry figures abseiled the Broadgate Tower, all…
Waggy’s wheels
Phil Wagstaff and a team are cycling round Lake Geneva. That’s 200 kilometres. Given that Phil is currently…
Anna O’Donoghue takes on The Channel
On our New York conferences, Anna was nicknamed Billy The Fish as she always took to the pool…
The London marathon
Team Aberdeen aiming to conquer heights
Team Aberdeen climbed Britain’s highest peak, Ben Nevis! The team included Graham Duce, Justin Jones, Jamie Niven and…
Carols with (Saint) Nick
Fancy a singalong? Join Nick Hutton from BlackRock in a good old-fashioned Christmas carol concert. This will be…